Guaniguanico , also known as Cordillera de Guaniguanico , is a mountain range of western Cuba that extends from the centre-west of Pinar del Río Province to the western area of Artemisa Province . It is formed by the subranges of Sierra del Rosario and Sierra de los Órganos .
5-625: Granberry and Vescelius (2004) suggest a Guanahatabey etymology for the name Guaniguanico , comparing it with wani-wani-ku 'hidden moon, moon-set' in the purportedly related Warao language of the Orinoco Delta . The cordillera extends for a length of circa 160 km, from the town Guane , in the west of Pinar del Río Province, to the Alturas de Mariel , near Mariel , Artemisa Province. The two subranges composing it, Sierra de los Órganos (west) and Sierra del Rosario (east), are divided in
10-683: The Spanish relatively late. Spanish accounts indicate that Guanahatabey was distinct from and mutually unintelligible with the Taíno language spoken in the rest of Cuba and throughout the Caribbean. Not a single word of the Guanahatabey language has been documented. However, Julian Granberry and Gary Vescelius have identified five placenames that they consider non-Taíno, and which may thus derive from Guanahatabey. Granberry and Vescelius argue that
15-585: The middle by the San Diego River ( Río San Diego ). The highest peak is the Pan de Guajaibón (699 m), located between the municipalities of Bahía Honda and La Palma . It represents a symbol of western Cuba. The Guaniguanico includes the Viñales Valley , a natural reserve and World Heritage Site ; and other landmarks as the waterfalls of Salto de Soroa , the nature reserve of Las Terrazas , and
20-506: The protected area of Mil Cumbres . [REDACTED] Media related to Guaniguanico at Wikimedia Commons Guanahatabey language Guanahatabey (Guanajatabey) was the language of the Guanahatabey people, a hunter-gatherer society that lived in western Cuba until the 16th century. Very little is known of it, as the Guanahatabey disappeared early in the period of Spanish colonization before substantial information about them
25-511: Was recorded. Evidence suggests it was distinct from the Taíno language spoken in the rest of the island. The Guanahatabey were hunter-gatherers that appear to have predated the agricultural Ciboney , the Taíno group that inhabited most of Cuba. By the contact period, the Guanahatabey lived primarily in far western Pinar del Río Province , which the Ciboney did not settle and was colonized by
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